Blink Twice (2024, Zoe Kravitz director & co-screenwriter, 1 hr 42 min) tells the story of a dream-perfect island retreat turned sinister, where guests become entangled in a web of memory manipulation and psychological control. Set against the alluring backdrop of wealth and exclusivity, the film traces themes of power, complicity, and the struggle to reclaim personal identity in the face of cyclical abuse.

In this session, we will use a psychoanalytic lens to unpack the film’s central conflicts, focusing on questions of repression, traumatic reenactment, and the role of group dynamics in facilitating or resisting harm. Note that Atlantic Magazine called Blink Twice “the movie that mattered most in 2024.”